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List of important people

(sorted alphabetically by last name)

  • Geoffrey Hinton (home page (toronto.edu))

    British-born cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. As of 2015 he divides his time working for Google and University of Toronto. He was one of the first researchers who demonstrated the use of generalized backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural nets.

    He co-invented Boltzmann machines with Terry Sejnowski.

    His current main interest is in unsupervised learning procedures for neural networks with rich sensory input.[citation needed]

  • Andrew Ng (home page)

    Associate Professor at Stanford. Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, Chief Scientist at Baidu Research (in Silicon Valley, working on deep learning). Taught an online Machine Learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students, leading to the founding of Coursera (Stanford CS229 class, and CS229a hosted on ml-class.org in 2011.)

    Named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

    (Born in the UK, studies and residence in the USA.)

    In 2011, Ng founded the Google Brain project at Google, which developed very large scale artificial neural networks using Google's distributed computer infrastructure. Among its notable results was a neural network trained using deep learning algorithms on 16,000 CPU cores, that learned to recognize higher-level concepts, such as cats, after watching only YouTube videos, and without ever having been told what a "cat" is.

  • Peter Norvig (home page)

    Co-author, with Stuart Russell, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, now the leading college text in the field.

    Was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center. Is a Director of Research at Google Inc., and used to be its Director of Search Quality. Was chief designer at Harlequin Inc. (former company working in the fields of AI and Lisp.)

    Has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California and a Research Faculty Member at Berkeley.

    (One of the authors of JScheme.)

    One of the two instructors of the "Intro to AI" course (Sebastian Thrun being the other, and main, one.)

  • Sebastian Thrun

    Innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

    One of the two instructors of the "Intro to AI" course (Peter Norvig being the other one.)